Job offer: Finance & Administrative Officer (CDI – 80 or 100 %)
GAMS Belgium, an NGO which has been fighting for 25 years for the abolition of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), is hiring an Administrative and Financial Manager as September 2023.
The GAMS team has significantly grown in the past years: as of today our team of 27 employees and 40 volunteers is spread over 4 sites (Brussels, Namur, Liège, Antwerp). New projects have just started in the Flandre region, at the federal level as well as internationally with an increasing need of financial and administrative monitoring in Dutch and in English. New collective labor agreeme...
Letter for a Tender for sustainability expert
Project 101096782 – END FGM E-Campus – CERV-2022 - DAPHNE / Package 2
The project E-learning Portal for Professionals to End FGM in Europe - End FGM E-campus is coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) and implemented in partnership with CUT (Cyprus), AIDOS (Italy), GAMS Belgium, APF (Portugal) and End FGM European Network (based in Brussels, Belgium). The End FGM E-campus is co-financed by the European Union.
The overall structure of the work plan is divided into 4 work packages (WP) to ensure successful implementation of the project. ...
Letter for a Tender for External Evaluator
Project 101096782 – END FGM E-Campus – CERV-2022 - DAPHNE / Package 1
The project E-learning Portal for Professionals to End FGM in Europe - End FGM E-campus is coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) and implementing in partnership with CUT (Cyprus), AIDOS (Italy), GAMS Belgium, APF (Portugal) and End FGM European Network (based in Brussels, Belgium). The End FGM E-campus is co-financed by the European Union.
The overall structure of the work plan is divided in 4 work packages (WP) to ensure successful implementation of the project. ...
NATIONAL AWARENESS-RAISING CAMPAIGN BEFORE THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS
A national campaign to prevent female genital mutilation (FGM) during the summer holidays was launched on May 23rd in Brussels. GAMS Belgium will welcome Halimata Fofana, an inspirational author who has just published her second novel "À l'ombre de la cité Rimbaud". She talks about FGM, forced marriages, but also how school, books and music helped her find her way.
Between 23rd and 26th May our campaign patron, Halimata Fofana, has met the general public, professionals from the care and education sectors, families affected by FGM and a group of children in a school in ...
Conference ‘Prevent & protect’ & Femmage for the founder of GAMS Belgium
On February 6th, on the international day of the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), GAMS Belgium had the honour to hold a conference in the Belgian Senate. Most of the invitees were there for the first time, admiring the high ceilings with paintings on the walls, the red carpet and were honoured to be on the guestlist because the seats were limited.
Stéphanie d’Hose, chairwoman of the Senate welcomed us all and pointed out to look at the portraits behind us. "There are too few women hanging among all these men; yet one woman stands out : Maria Theresa of ...
New awareness-raising Tools to invite women who have undergone genital mutilation to come to the multidisciplinary centres
More than 23,000 girls and women who have undergone genital mutilation live in Belgium. To help them, two multidisciplinary hospital centres have been created in our country. Located at the Sint- Pieter Hospital in Brussels (CeMAViE centre) and at the UZGent (Vrouwenkliniek), they provide holistic care for women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation: medical, surgical, sexological and psychological care. This care is fully reimbursed by the social security, including clitoral reconstruction. Ahead of the International Day of the fight against Female ...
GAMS’ team wishes for 2023!
A letter from the chairwoman, Diariou
Since 2011, GAMS Belgium has been accompanying pregnant women during their pregnancy with workshops preparing for birth, as well as post-natal sessions with the babies. These workshops allow women to ask questions, to obtain reliable information to make informed choices, to share their knowledge, to create a space of support between them... The life paths and female genital mutilation can provoke important fears related to the childbirth. These meetings provide an opportunity to name these fears, to listen to other women who have already given birth, to deconstruct certain ...
Binta and Aïssatou testify thanks to the modelling of their vulva with the SEX-ED + project
Discover the testimonies of Binta and Aïssatou, participants in an innovative collaboration between SEX ED+ and CeMAVIE. The two women, each affected by female genital mutilation, share their first impressions after an intense experience: modelling their vulva.
"Hello, would you like coffee or tea or would you like something to eat?" asks Cendrine, sexologist Vanderhoeven at CeMAViE, in a welcoming way. Women from Brussels and Wallonia arrive to take part in the vulva modelling project. Some come for the first time, others are loyal visitors. In the corridor, when ...
CASTS OF VULVA’s, an instrument towards female empowerment
From across the Atlantic, independent researcher Magaly Pirotte of SEX-ED + visited GAMS Belgium for two days and made ten casts of vulvas of women who had undergone female genital mutilation as part of an exchange project funded by Wallonie-Bruxelles International-Québec. The Centre Médical d'Aide aux Victimes de l'Excision (CeMAViE) at CHU Saint Pierre, GAMS Belgium and SEX-ED + were able to work together to produce reproductions of external genitalia. The aim? To create an encyclopaedia and tools to better understand the realities of women affected by female genital ...
